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Gravitational shockwaves are geometries where components of the transverse curvature have abrupt behaviour across null hypersurfaces, which are fronts of the waves. We develop a general approach to describe classical field theories on such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 D. V. Fursaev , E. A. Davydov , I. G. Pirozhenko , V. A. Tainov

The general problem of shock formation in three space dimensions was solved by D. Christodoulou in his 2007 monograph: 'The Formation of Shocks in 3-dimensional Fluids'. In this work also a complete description of the maximal development of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Demetrios Christodoulou , André Lisibach

In this paper, we develop second kind integral formulations for flexural wave scattering problems involving the clamped, supported, and free plate boundary conditions. While the clamped plate problem can be solved with layer potentials…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Peter Nekrasov , Zhaosen Su , Travis Askham , Jeremy G. Hoskins

Spiral waves are a ubiquitous feature of the nonequilibrium dynamics of a great variety of excitable systems. In the limit of a large separation in timescale between fast excitation and slow recovery, one can reduce the spiral problem to…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine

In this note, we discuss a poorly known alternative boundary condition to the usual Neumann or `stress-free' boundary condition typically used to weaken boundary layers when diffusion is present but very small. These `diffusion-free'…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Yufeng Lin , Rich Kerswell

This paper studies a two-phase free boundary problem governed by the ElectroHydroDynamic equations, which describes a perfectly conducting, incompressible, irrotational fluid with gravity, surrounded by a dielectric gas. The interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Lili Du , Yuanhong Zhao

Exactly solvable models are interesting for science and education, since they help in scientific search and in understanding of phenomena. Some exact solutions for simple quantum-mechanical models are considered. The models include two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Sergey N. Artekha , Natalya S. Artekha

We establish the local uniqueness of steady transonic shock solutions with spherical symmetry for the three-dimensional full Euler equations. These transonic shock-fronts are important for understanding transonic shock phenomena in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-09 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Hairong Yuan

The system of equations for water waves, when linearized about equilibrium of a fluid body with a varying bottom boundary, is described by a spectral problem for the Dirichlet -- Neumann operator of the unperturbed free surface. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Walter Craig , Maxime Gazeau , Christophe Lacave , Catherine Sulem

In this paper, we are concerned with the two-dimensional steady supersonic combustion flows with a contact discontinuity moving through a nozzle of finite length. Mathematically, it can be formulated as a free boundary value problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Junlei Gao , Feimin Huang , Jie Kuang , Dehua Wang , Wei Xiang

The two-dimensional propagation of small-amplitude waves through an infinite periodic array of freely-floating rectangular floes is considered under the assumptions of inviscid linearised wave theory. Fluid gaps between adjacent floes allow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Lloyd Dafydd , Richard Porter

The boundary problem of linear classical optics about the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with a thin dielectric film has been solved under explicit consideration of its discrete structure. The main attention has been paid to the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. V. Sukhov , K. V. Krutitsky

We consider a spectral problem associated with steady water waves of extreme form on the free surface of a rotational flow. It is proved that the spectrum of this problem contains arbitrary large negative eigenvalues and they are simple.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Vladimir Kozlov , Evgeniy Lokharu

We discuss a numerical method for convection-diffusion-reaction problems with a free boundary in 1D. The method is based on the numerical modelling of the interface evolution, the transformation to a fixed domain problem and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Gabriela Kacurova

In our previous work, we have established the existence of transonic characteristic discontinuities separating supersonic flows from a static gas in two-dimensional steady compressible Euler flows under a perturbation with small total…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Gui-Qiang Chen , Vaibhav Kukreja , Hairong Yuan

In this paper, we are trying to show the uniqueness of transonic shock solutions in an expanding nozzle under certain conditions and assumptions on the boundary data and the shock solution. The idea is to compare two transonic shock…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Beixiang Fang , Xin Gao , Wei Xiang

We consider the solutions of the Guderley problem, consisting of a converging and diverging hydrodynamic shock wave in an ideal gas with a power law initial density profile. The self-similar solutions, and specifically the reflected shock…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Itamar Giron , Shmuel Balberg , Menahem Krief

We study the existence and properties of Lipschitz continuous weak solutions to the Neumann boundary value problem for a class of one-dimensional quasilinear forward-backward diffusion equations with linear convection and reaction. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Seonghak Kim , Baisheng Yan

The semi-analytical wall boundary conditions present a mathematically rigorous framework to prescribe the influence of solid walls in SPH for fluid flows. In this paper they are investigated with respect to the skew-adjoint property which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Arno Mayrhofer , Benedict D. Rogers , Damien Violeau , Martin Ferrand

We are concerned with the structural stability of conical shocks in the three-dimensional steady supersonic flows past Lipschitz perturbed cones whose vertex angles are less than the critical angle. The flows under consideration are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Jie Kuang , Yongqian Zhang